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The Heigo of Terror in Caswell County Whole Families Without . a Male -Protector The Town olYancey ville Picketed . by Kirk's , Jayhawkers The Court Martial Postponed Kirh Reports Fresh Outrages in the Co. Another Side of the Case Peculiar Position of the United States Troops ;. ' 'Yakceyville, July 28, 1870. Last" eveninsr :a lady standing in the doorway otone of the residences here- ap pealing to a gentleman ? named "Withers, said, Do pray, Colonel, come ; and sleep here to-night, for I am terrified and don't know" what may; happen. There.is.no body li ere Jbut myselt and . the children, and we are;,iJearly ficared,;to death.?' In deedi Mrs Johnson,! said the': g'entleman, " L would do. so with pleasure, but I have already promised; Mrs; - that I. would stay, there to-night. , , You Jjnow she has a ': large family oS daughters and : they' re quire, more than you do,. some male pro ; tection.'! ,",G6d help us !" said the lady, .. " whatf will : become, of lis m . This brief . conversation took place between the wife .,oi one oJrKirk'a prisoners, iind a! citizen: k -not yet arrested,, who. now employs him auoraing proiecnuu iUiiuje .amines, oi iine-gentlemen vwnoarei connnea. lntne WILMINGTON, Court House. .When the citizens still at large are distributed, there is scarcely a sumcient number to allow one? to each house, and in consequence of the roving and depredating propensities of the jay- nawKers tne greatest alarm and insecurity are experienced by the helpless women and: children, ; A town occupied by an in vading foe scarcely ever underwent a more trying ordeal than does the village of Yancey v ill e at present, for here there is a horde 01 rumans who seem to be impressed with the idea that their express mission is one of persecution and outrage. At night the village is - PICKETED '.' . by the jayhawkersY and every traveller hot having the counter.-igni3 marched be fore one of Kirk's officers, who subjects him to a cross examination as to his rcsi: dence, where he is going, and his political procnviues; ana 11 ine responses are an satisfactory he is allowed to pass; if hot he is hospitably huddled into the Court House, where, he hnds time tor calm -re flection, if not repose. In the morning the persons so arrested are brought into the August presenee ot Colonel Kirk, who again examines them; and either disposes of them by a continuation of the hospitali ty of the Court House, or permits t hem to depart.' The' officers comprising the court martial" appointed by hi3 Excellency Governor Holden to try the prisoners not haying arrived ,yet, I called on Colonel Kirk this morning, and, ;Jeing Jucky enough to meet him at the gate in front of the Court House, had quite an interesting though " ; 4 ' r ' " - ' ' , BKIEP INTERVIEW. "... Correspondent Colonel, I understand the.pffi.cers of the coart have not'r arrived: Have you any news of them ? f - Colonel 1Yes.; The court martial is post poned on account of the sickness of some .of the officers. : V 'i tfffr.. Correspondent Are you. in .receipt of any instructions "asi"to the ' disposition of the prisoners ?"s ' ; , '': V' V Colonel No. I j am waiting, for ties-, patches now. My Lieutenant-Colonel is, at one of the stations on the railroad wait ing for the despatches. : Correspondent Do you anticipate or ders to bring the prisoners to : Raleigh ? I saw a civil, officer here yesterday, with nineteen writs from the Chief Justice' for the bodies of ; the prisoners, j which ' he failed to serve on you. -. Colonel No. I don't expect any orders to carry them to Raleigh. I think they will be tried here after the elections, and I see no use in the Chief ,' Justice sending his writs here, for he knows as well as ,1 do that the prisoners will not be given up. I don't want to be bothered any more with writs," and I don't intend to allow any more of them to be served on nie. ' I have got a bundle. ,ot them now in my pocket, and the man who brought them is in the Court House. Ten ' thousand men could not get the1 prisoners without a fight. I am acting under Governor' Hol den orders, and I'll be damned if I don?t obey them. - " Correspondent How long do you ex pect to remain here ? 1 Colonel I will be here six months at least. There is plenty, to do in this very county for that length of time. . Correspondent What is there to be done that will take you six months? t Colonel "Why, suppressing these out rages. I am not a political partisan, but I wan every- man to have a free and un- tramoled vote. ' (This was - the Colon el's axact language.) ; . - t Correspondent You' do "not mean to say there has been any outrage committed in the county since you arrived here? Colonel Yes,' I do. I have three pages nf testimonv now of outrages committed within the last week. lM I c , Correspondent What is t the nature of 'these outrrges"?i.f :lT- j Colonel Whipping f an scourging. white Union men and colored men because thev voted "the' republican ? ticket.; And these outrages are not committed by poor men, because they have ' horses, - and the horses are disguised as wellias the men to WRITE FOB' YOTO Pil'ER. N. C FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1870. prevent them from being khoyn but some of the Ku Klux themselves have betrayed them. It is the wealthy men who are the real K.u Klux. ,,If they do not murder and whip themselves, they furnish the' means to the scoundrels who do. Them verv prisoners up stairs in that Court House have murder m their hearts, and if this thing was stopped right here at this stage every Union man and negro in the county would have to get-up aqd leave. , ' Correspondent Who do you get your information of outrages trom, for. I have been asking both negroes -and .white men and have failed yet to discovert any who know of a recent case of whipping or even ihti -nidation ? ' Colonel I get my information from the men who are whipped and scourged, who have identified many of the hypocritical scoundrels that whipped them through their disguise. If you want to see victims of these outrages goY down and talk to Mrs. Stephens, and see her little children crying for their murdered lather: " Every one of these prisoners knew well that day that Stephens was to be murderedpand the only way to stop such doings is to re taliate, and hang and whip the men who are found guilty of committing such out rages, r . - . .i.--.2.v The Colonel showed himself in his true colors in this little conversation. He is tutored to perfection in the role he has to play, and Holden could not have possibly procured a more, willing and infamous tool to carry out- his infamous designs. That his allegations of fresh outrages are untrue is beyond doubt ; and that the respected and elegant gentlemen confined by him were cognizant " of s the Stephens murder is a foul raiid malicious : slander. The officers commanding the United States troops here, besides two Northern gentlemen . who; visited ., Yancey ville je-. cently, gaVe these alleged outrages a most thorough and impartial investigation,1 and all agree in stating that there is: no more justification for. the, unparrailelled oppres sion of the people here than ? there is tor any county in . Ne York -or any other Northern State. . ; The murderers of Ste phens will one of tliese days . be ferreted out; and it is really believed by many that it can be traced directly to Governor Hol den himself, who told the negroes that Stephens "must ibe got.rid ofV' .; iy: POSITION OF THE 'UNITED STATES TROOPS. Battery D, Fourth United States Heavy Artillery, now doing duty here as infantry, under the command of Major Rodney and Captain Field, occupies a singular posi-' tion in relation to the existing troubles. They arrived here about a week prior tp Kirk and his. band of jayhawkers, with in structions from the Jieadquarters of Gen. McDowell, Department Commander, to aid the civil authorities in the enforce ment of the .laws, ; the officer in charge, however, having certain discretipnarypow ers.'. Making the case a snpposable one, the sheriff ot the county was the civil of ficial the officer in command of these troops was instructed to aid, and whose orders he was in duty-bound to obey. But the sheriff was one of the first persons arrest ed and imprisoned by Kirk after the inva sion' with loaded muskets and cocked pis tols. All the offices of the remaining civil officials, with their books and documents, were taken possession of by ; Kirk, who quartered his iayhawkers in the offices, and denied ' the incumbents admission; The civil officials appealed to Major Rod ney for aid for the protection, at least, of the records of the court and the ar chives of the count v: besides the mass of documentary matter in their charge; 'but, however that officer's convictions of right werei he exercised his discretionary : pow ers and refused to interfere. Since then there have been no civil officials to aid as the instructions indicated and the' posi tion of the'.United States troops, here is a negative ohefunl ess possibly1 they ; might interfere to quell a conflict between Kirk's troops ana me citizens, 11 suun iuuis. piace,' though .perhaps the discretionary ..powers would be more judiciously exercised if llUCJ qiUtU 1111 It ... B14M111 VVlUHVUllUU to this arose yesteraay, wnen tne deputy of the marshal ot the State Supreme Court attempted to serve the writs of habeas cor pus on Kirk, but was prevented by a quiet intimation from that individual that he would be fired on if he did not make him self scarce at Yancey ville. Was not Major Rodney and bis troops bound to aid -this officer in executing the writs the sacred privilege of the citizen at all , hazards, particularly when the habeas corpus had not been suspended by the President of the United States ? The deputy marshal did not appeal to him for aid, and even if he did, under the circumstances, 'the offi cer would, in all probability,' have again exercised his discretion, andf in the ab sence of more definite instructions, refused to interfere where it might hare resulted in a serious collision between he jayhawk ers and the United States trops. . - The marked contrast . between . the soldiers of this coir mand, in point of physicial development, healthy appear: ance, soldierly bearing and strict discip line, tells terribly against Kirk's slim, sickly, saffron-colored, slovenly samples of East "Tennessee jayhawkers and iutellec tually the privates in the United .States battery are the superiors of Kirk's officers. On the 25th detecti ve of . Hoiden's, whose name is ,LY H;: Mowers but who has half a: dozen aliases viz.,. " Hamilton Burnham and i others decoyed a young man named Gun, of Danville, Va.,! and this county,: from ''' " ARRESTED HIM, . ' ? f lodged nim in the Court House ;vvith the remainder of Kirk's prisoners, 4 where - he. still remains in custody. . This is an ' out rage on the State of. .Yirginia tbftt should at once be looked into by Governor 'Wal ker. J Gunh" was no fugitive from, justice; there were no charges preferred- against him; and even had . there been Hoiden's minions had no shadow ' of authority for decoying a man.from yijgi.nia for the pur-! pose of arrest;The'v'stWaspin" -hict, made in Virginia, and is therefore a; viola tion of the territory of that State. -Y Kirk, who is to be one of ? the members of the court to, try, thp !prisoners,'has re peatedly ex "pessed his opinion of the guilt of some of them,' and is therefore disquali fied to act. Correspondence Nexo York Herald. ' V . Y;. How Kirk Refused to Allow Writs of Habeas Corpus to be t Served upon - From the Danville Times. : . - On Tuesdey last Colonel George WiW liamson, a citizen of Caswell, in company with Mr. E. M. Pace, of Danville, left Danville, having nineteen writs of habeas corpus from tfie Supreme Court of North Carolina to serve on Colonel Kirk. Hav ing remained that night at : Colonel Wil liamson's, they made their appearance at YanceyviUe the next morning ; about 8 o'clock. They asked permission to see Colonel Kirk. The adjutant came out, inquiring their - business and names. Colonel Williamson replied, he desired to see Colonel Kirk to deliver some docu ments Th6 adjutant having seen Colonel Kirk, informed them that he could not be seen in less than half an hour. They then went over to Norfleet's store, remained a short time, and went back. The adjutant told them if they had documents for the Colonel, to seal them, and he would deliver them himself. 'Colonel Williamson replied the documents were of such a nature as to require him; to see Colonel Kirk 'person ally. The adjutant then went; to Kirk's room," and remaining an hour Colonel Wil liamson and Mr. Pace left. In the mean time they visited the camp of the United States soldiers. : When they returned on the street Colonel Williamson went to the court-house gate, when the. Major came but. '' Colonel1 Williauison asked him; howr long it would be .before he could- get ra1 hearing before Colonel Kirk;- The Major went in, and on his Lreturademandedi tdh knowttieirbusihess Colonel' Williamson replied that he had writs:of habeas corpus to serve on him: The Major,-after seeing Kirk, returned with the reply frorli.' hjm that he. wished to have no communication or conversation with midnight Yassassins NO. 40. Colonel Williamson replied that they were not midnight ? assassins, that : he t was. a peaceable, law-abiding citizen of the ' county. The Major turned hi? . back, and : ' they went across to Norfleet's store. ' Du-' " ring that:time the drums beatanji the sol diers commenced getting under arms. : Messrs. Williamson and Pace moved to ! a 'f large: tree fronting the court-liouse., 1 Col. Y Kirk made his appearance at th? .windowrs standing by one of the prisoners. As soon as . he saw him, Col. Williamson started: across i- -th e street with writs in his1 hand:4 Kirk T drew;, back. Colonel Williams then re- '" turned to the . free,- . whereupon . a com v pany of soldiers marched oat of the gate ; towards them, came;half 'way, halted about faced, am? returned:" Kirk then -appeared on the lower porch: ' "Immedi- ately six men and a non-commissioned', officer armed, under charge of the Majorj advanced on Colonel Williamson and Mr. Pace.- Gettingn within five paces, they halted - and remarked, ' This caucussingY , must be broken up. If you have homes,'?, go to them ;- if you o not, I am ordered i ". by Colonel ; Kirk to fire into you.V ' Mr. ? Pace replied, " Itcaucussing is whatyou"; want . to break up, " we ' will separate." ' Colonel Williamson remarked that he was . there on a peaceful mission, armed as 'he 7 was j with' authority from .the' Chief Jus-Y-tice of the State, and that he. did nptjn tend to leave. The Maior reDlied."" Mv orders are positive and you must leave." Y Seeing there' was no possible chance a to serve" the writs without ibeingv shot; Colonel Williamson and Mr. Peace leflt; -and I thev deserve : crreat- credit fori the Y- faithful manner in which they dilehafged th?ir whole duty, v Y m7 -V3"T.r. A Bad Man in a Position to do Mischief. ; From the Washington Star (Republican.) -v 4 Wp cannot resist the conviction that j Gov. Holden is pursuing a wholly mis- chieyous and indefensible course in North,, Carolina.' Giving all possible" considera-, tion to the asservations of . Gov.: H. in "reY gard to the Ku Klux Klan outrages ; and v resistance to law, we see nothing to jus tify his violent despotic .acts. " The evi-1 dence all points to the conclusion that Ibe f ' extreme measures he has - resorted to are r dictated solely by, a , reckless, unscrupu-Y lous determination to carry out his own political ends at all hazards. He defies the civil courts," - suspends J the "writ of Habeas corpus, breaks up peaceful meetings by military force"; arrests, the speakers, ; bayonets the spectators, and threatens the ' lives' of all who protest against his tyran ical, unlawful deeds. "He employs a wil ling tool by the name of Kirk to enforce his system of terrorism. This Kirk quar-Y' ters his troops : in private houses, tears up writs of habeas corpus when served upon him, and declares "that sort of thing played out!" Under the instruc tions of Holden He arrestVthe 'officers of the civil courts for presumption j and it appears -thathe is prepared to go to the extraordi-r. nary lengths of organizing a military comf , mission in ' his camp for the trial of " his prispners, spme hundreds in number, many of them influential citizens, and who have been counted as good Republicans, but who are not prepared to sustain the arbi- T trary acts of Holden. The deeds ot greedy, Unscrupulous men, like Holden in North Carolina, and Scott in South Qarolinay are doing infinite mischief to the republican cause, making it impossible to build up a self-sustaining Republican party in; the South, and ' putting Y weapons" info1 the, hands of the enemies ofjhe party, in,, the North. It is the fault of just such men us Holden that North Carolina is hot sound ly republican to-day, if she. is. not.1. .In no State ot the Boutn was mere so . large . a : , Union element during the war, and in.nb State 'was the;ivorkof.recohstraction, en-' tered upon;Vunder imbreY favorable'aU' spicesiY Asf forYHoljienj. Yne.is simply a- demagogue, trickster and political desper-: ado 4 AHatant secessionist ,wheh sece3-Y sion was uppermost, he is just the style of i a man now to persecute r with rabid Tin-,;' dictiveness not only his secession ? neigh-; y t bors, but'all Republicans jvho oppose , his 1 oppressive reign. , -- ' i-:. . .5r"'-'""r V --''J""